Yoon Bong-Gil

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Yoon.

Yoon Bong-Gil
Korean name
Hangul 윤봉길 Hanja 尹奉吉 Revised Romanization Yun Bong-gil McCune- Reischauer Yun Pong-gil

Yoon Bong-Gil (21 June 1908, Yesan, Korea - 19 December 1932 Kanazawa, Japan) was a Korean independence activist^[1][2] who worked against Japan during Japan's occupation of Korea (1910 - 1945). Yoon participated in an assassination attempt of several Japanese leaders.

On 29th April, 1932, he carried out a bombing attack using a bomb disguised as a water bottle at a Japanese army celebration of Emperor Hirohito's birthday in Shanghai. The bombing killed Yoshinori Shirakawa, a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, and Kawabata Sadaji (河端貞次, Kawabata Sadaji^?), a Government Chancellor of Japanese residents in Shanghai. It also seriously injured Kenkichi Ueda, Division 9 commander of the Japanese Imperial Army, Kuramatsu Murai (村井倉松, Kuramatsu Murai^?), Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai, and Shigemitsu Mamoru, Japanese Envoy in Shanghai.

Yoon was arrested at the scene and convicted by the Japanese military court in Shanghai on 25th May. He was transferred to Osaka prison on 18th November, and executed in Kanazawa on 18th December. He was buried in Nodayama graveyard.

In May 1946, his remains were excavated by Korean residents in Japan, transferred to Seoul and given funeral rites. He was then reburied in the Korean National Cemetery. In 1962, the government of South Korea's Second Republic praised his bombing attack, and posthumously bestowed the Republic of Korea Cordon (Grand Cordon) of the Order of Liberation Merit on him.

See also

• Sakuradamon Incident
• Korean independence movements
• Korea under Japanese rule

References

External links

• Website devoted to Yoon Bong-gil
• Yoon Bong-gil Site